This is a mesage that I sent on Friday, and to my knowledeg did not show
up, (+ there were no responses) Im assuming if I can post... That I am
in fact subscribed ;-)

Hopefully this make it

Thanks!
bob

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Ok, so it was too good to be true....

the suggestion to run

namesctl dump_tnsnames

on the client and expecting a fresh copy of tnsnames to be installed (on
the clients machine) is NOT supported.

I searched on metalink, alot of people have the same problem " a 0 byte
tnsnames file being created using namesctl"

Alot of OLD bugs that were never fixed, so I submitted an iTAR, and the
rep tried his best to convince me that this is NOT how the namesctl is
designed to work.

Does anyone know with certinty that this could be the methood to get a
fresh tnsnames file on the client from the onames server in the event
you do not want individual users to maintain their own tnsnames file?
The workaround wast to have the logon server pull and distribute the tns
from the onames server....
And the money we pay oracle....!

any ideas

thanks!
bob

Hello Jared

I did not know that the client could call the "default" name
server... from sqlnet.ora... pretty cool.
However, there now seems to be some bugs (no..)....

It seems the namesctl ignores the arg to use a user defined path eg a
file does *not* gets created in C:\temp
BUT.... an *empty* tnsnames files does get created in the
%oracle_home%\network\admin
PROVIDING there is *not* an existing tnsnames there, if there is,
namesctl simply creates a copy of the *existing* tnsnames with a .sav
extension
!
Ive tested this on my machine running 8.1.7.4 all our client/user pcs
here are 8.17 0r 8.16

>From the server itself it creats a full C:\mytnsnames.txt file with all
the connect discriptors

How is this supposed to be called?

Thanks!

> Bob,
>
> I understand what you are saying (and your pain). My
> suggestion would be to use the 'namesctl dump_tnsnames'
> command to dump out the current Onames repository to the PC's
> $TNS_ADMIN dir via a login script or SMS. You might want o
> rename the current TNSNAMES.ORA file just prior to that as
> dump_tnsnames adds to the end of the current one and doesn't
> handle changes very well.
>
> Hth,
> John Kanagaraj
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> Hello All
>
> Im back from the trenches to post a quick request for
> help....<g>
>
> Ive setup onames on 2 servers and standard applications, (our app and
> sqlplus) connect just fine, a problem situation manifests itself when:
>
> 1 users need to connect (add a database) to dba studio. They
> get a error to the effect "cant resolve host name" And the
> other 2. Users connect to remote databases (via vpn) that are
> in our onames but many of these vpn connections once made do
> not allow access to
> *our* network resources.
>
> So basically almost all of oour users have one or more of
> these secenarios which means they will need to maintain a
> tnsnames file as well.
>
> I'm managing about 70+ connect discriptors.... And I was
> hoping onames could be a centralised answer
>
> Is this common? Or is there a workaround?
>
> Thanks!
> bob
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